how to reload

[Cowboy T]

I take exception to this.

Without my knowing, my sister went to his shop and he loaded her up with a Dillon XL-650 in 9mm and who knows what else.

I did not find out about this until after she bought the setup and I told her multiple times that she had no business using it until she learned about reloading first. Well, she made about 200 rounds and somewhere in there, they started being bad. She had to have the guy at the range pound em out of her guns with a mallet and a Dowel rod.

She has not touched it since and this was about 4 or so years ago. I told her she needed to learn to crawl and then walk before she ran.

Now she is afraid of making bad ammo. So, when it comes to ol' Brian there at the shop, he is a salesman first and is there to move product.

This is yet another reason why I always tell folks to start with a slower press, the fastest you want is a Lee Classic Cast. The slower presses are not very expensive (compared to what she got anyways) and they usually have utility value besides loading ammo. 9 and 45 are go fast ammos. They are best made in go fast presses, but the safest/fastest is the LCC in my opinion.

Just sayin...

This very same thing happened to a friend of mine who wanted to reload .38 Special. She'd never reloaded in her life before, though she knew I did it. I encouraged her to do so and also to talk with me before she bought anything.

Well, she went to a shop, thinking they would best advise her. The shop sold her a Dillon XL650, without dies. Yeesh. That is WAAAAAYY too much press for her. I ended up buying it from her and setting it up myself. It's a good press, but there's no way it was appropriate for her. I would've told her to get a Lee Challenger Press or possibly a Lee Classic Turret Press for her needs. Heck, the "normal" Turret Press would've taken good care of her.

It appears that this "Brian" fellow, of whom people speak, is as much of a product-mover-first as these folks who sold my friend the XL650. Now, there's nothing wrong with moving product, but I really don't like it when shops do the above kind of thing to people.